Hack­Craft

“Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered. You can’t create until you’re willing to subordinate the creative impulses to the constriction of a form.”

Anthony Burgess

WebHackCraft

This has all gone sort of wrong.

Okay, so I was never frequent in updating this site, but still, I’ve been really bad recently (where “recently” means the last few years).

Worse of all, while I've always said I’d use this to put whatever I wanted up, the original goal was that it would focus mainly on programming matters, but of late I’ve pretty much only written on occult and religious topics.

There is at least one Computer Science course out there that has this website as recommended reading. Oh I bet they’re regretting that now! Still, if your CS professor told you to read this, all the stuff for you is under “articles”. You’re free to read the rest as well of course, but you’re probably fine if you don’t. Meanwhile, the occult and religious stuff fills out most of what’s under “off-topic” even though at this rate it'll soon be the main topic.

Latest Article

If you used Ubuntu One, you will be aware that this service is ending. There are plenty of competing services to move to, but of course those of us who were using Ubuntu One were using it because we liked the way it worked more than those competitors. Here I detail how I got Copy to work more like Ubuntu One.

Exoteric Neopaganism: Toward a minor religion?

TWPT Talks to Jon Hanna

A book, What Thou Wilt, based on my essay, “Traditional and Innovative Trends in Post-Gardnerian Witchcraft”, has been published by Evertype.

As well as benefitting some insightful comments by readers, and from a deadline forcing me to finally rectify some errors and make some necessary additions,
the oversight of an editor is a wonderful thing—I don’t know why some writers complain about editors; seeing
what I’ve tried to express made clearer by editting is a joy.